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Facebook follows Google with $300 million in funds to support local-level journalism
Facebook announced Tuesday that it will invest $300 million over three years to support journalism, with an emphasis on promoting hard-hit local-level news organizations. The move, on the heels of a similar initiative by Google last year, comes with online platforms dominating the internet advertising ...
With almost every individual empowered by web access, the whole system of garnering and marshalling opinion becomes impossibly distorted.
The government plans to come up with a set of measures aimed at preventing the spread of false online information, or "fake news," particularly during elections and disasters, according to government sources. Officials are seeking to come up with the package around June, which may ...
WikiLeaks tells reporters 140 'false and defamatory' things not to say about Julian Assange
WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different "false and defamatory" statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012. It was not immediately clear what prompted the advice to media organizations, ...
Why people fall for fake news isn't simple
Scientists are weirdly divided over what seems like common sense.
Unconventional Trump said to have 'dynamited the institution of the presidency'
Mr. Trump went to Washington. And he changed it. In his first two years in office, President Donald Trump has rewritten the rules of the presidency and the norms of the nation's capital, casting aside codes of conduct and traditions that have held for generations. In ...
Facebook removes fake Bangladesh news sites in run-up to national elections
Facebook is shutting down a series of fake news sites spreading false information about the Bangladeshi opposition days before national elections, an official from the social media platform said. The sites — nine Facebook pages designed to mimic legitimate news outlets, as well as six ...
Russia launched a year-long fake news campaign about Kiev's and NATO's plans for the Azov Sea before seizing three Ukrainian ships there, EU security commissioner Julian King alleged Monday. King said Russian media spread false claims that Ukraine had infected the Azov Sea with cholera ...
From bad to worse: White House bans CNN reporter as Trump's media relations fray further
President Trump's combative relationship with the media deteriorated further Wednesday with a news conference where he called some reporters rude and accused a PBS reporter of posing a racist question when she asked him about white nationalists. "It's such a hostile media," Trump said during ...
Facebook said Monday it blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 more on Instagram after police warned they may be linked to "foreign entities" trying to interfere in the U.S. midterm election. The announcement came shortly after U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies ...
Worldwide web inventor wants new 'contract' to make system safe amid 'fake news' backlash
The inventor of the worldwide web on Monday called for a "contract" to make internet safe and accessible for everyone as Europe's largest tech event began in Lisbon amid a backlash over its role in spreading "fake news. Some 70,000 people are expected to take ...
